Patent Application
20240001505
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The disclosure relates to blade honing device and more particularly pertains to a new blade honing device for honing a blade using a rigidly supported soft and smooth surface.
The prior art discloses blade honing devices such as a rigid hone or file with an abrasive tool head that is replaceable when the tool head becomes too worn. Another device has a removable abrasive sheath which covers a bi-convex tool for abrasively sharpening a blade. This device is another instance of an abrasive surface being replaceable when the tool becomes worn. These devices do not address the need of some users to use a rigidly supported soft and smooth material to hone a blade rather than abrasively shape it. Sharpening with an abrasive surface removes material, whereas honing with a soft, smooth material conforms to the surface of a blade and pushes the material of the blade in order to smooth an edge.
Yet another device uses straps of leather held taut and pulled to adjust the convexity or concavity of the leather straps to the user's desires, and leather straps have been known to be used for smoothly honing an edge of a blade. But this device and others do not support the full length of the leather with a rigid member, which allows for the exertion of greater force on the blade when necessary. The prior art thus fails to disclose a device which smoothly hones a blade while rigidly supporting it.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a tool with a handle and a rigid member extending from the handle. A sheath constructed of a flexible material is deployable around the rigid member of the tool to produce a rigidly supported soft and smooth surface for honing blades.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The tool 12 may alternatively not be a honing rod, wherein the perimeter surface 18 of the rigid member 16 of the tool 12 comprises a flat surface. In this case, the sheath is configured for honing the blade 26 when in the use position 24 and the side of the blade 26 adjacent to the edge 30 of the blade 26 frictionally engages the outer surface 32 of the sheath 20 opposite the flat surface and moves parallel to the flat surface such that the edge 30 of the blade 26 follows behind the side of the blade 26.
The sheath 20 is constructed of a sheet 34 of the flexible material. The sheet 34 elongates from a first end 36 of the sheet 34 to a second end 38 of the sheet 34 along a central longitudinal axis and is symmetric about the central longitudinal axis. The sheet 34 has a pair of lateral edges 40 which also extend from the first end 36 of the sheet 34 to the second end 38 of the sheet 34. The pair of lateral edges 40 arc inward at the second end 38 of the sheet 34. The sheet 34 has a pair of border portions 42 which are each adjacent to and extend along each lateral edge 40. The sheet 34 forms the sheath 20 when the sheet 34 bends around the central longitudinal axis, the pair of lateral edges 40 align with each other, and the pair of border portions 42 couple to each other, thereby also defining the opening 22 at the first end 36 and the hollow space.
The sheet 34 of the flexible material has a plurality of thread holes 44 dispersed proximate to each lateral edge 40 of the sheet 34. Each thread hole 44 is positioned coaxially with an associated thread hole 44 when the sheet 34 is positioned to form the sheath 20. A thread 46 stitches together the pair of border portions 42 of the sheet 34 together to form the sheath 20. Each of a plurality of rivet holes 50 extend through an associated border portion 42 of the pair of border portions 42 of the sheet 34 proximate an associated end 52 of the associated border portion 42. Each rivet hole 50 is positioned coaxially with an associated rivet hole 50 when the sheet 34 is positioned to form the sheath 20. Each of a pair of rivets 48 extend through a pair of rivet holes 50 of the plurality of rivet holes 50, securing the ends 52 of the pair of border portions 42 to each other.
In use, a user inserts the rigid member 16 of the tool 12 into the sheath 20. Then, while holding the handle 14 of the tool 12, the user moves the side of the blade 26 adjacent to the edge 30 of the blade 26 parallel to the perimeter surface 18 of the rigid member 16 while the side of the blade 26 frictionally engages an outer surface 32 of the sheath 20 such that the edge 30 of the blade 26 follows behind the side of the blade 26.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
